pinch-facen.
/ˈpɪn(t)ʃfeɪs/, U.S. /ˈpɪn(t)ʃˌfeɪs/ A pinched face; a pinch-faced person; a grumbler, a complainer.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] > person having
good face1591
chitty-face1601
dogfacea1627
Lenten chapsa1640
pretty face1675
baby face1726
slape-face1847
pinch-face1911
pizza face1964
zit-face1974
1911 Delta Herald & Times (York County, Pa.) 8 Dec. 1/4 The band of children, their poor clothing dishevelled but their pinch-faces expectant.
1917 W. Owen Let. 27 Sept. (1967) 497 I called for the poet—a wizened little pinch-face, about two feet high!
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. b1 A prissy ex-coach who dares to button his suit jacket and is referred to contemptuously as ‘old pinch face’.
1996 Metrowest Jewish News (Nexis) 12 Dec. 54 If you don't happen to know my uncle Max you've met his goyishe equivalent in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He is Malvolio, which is to say, a professional pinch-face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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